Chapter 12: Despair
The corpse smashed by Huang Shiyuan was still lying on the ground, the flesh and blood were blurred, and there were even green-headed flies enjoying the food.
Li Daoxuan looked inside the house again, this should be the tailor's home in the town.
The tailor had slept peacefully in the courtyard, but he had not seen his wife and son, and Lee Do-hyun pushed the door and entered the house.
The living room was empty, with only a table of eight immortals and a four-legged cupboard.
The door on the left side went to the kitchen, and there were two rooms on the right, Li Daoxuan first came to the door of the room closer to the door, stabbed the door with a pig-killing knife, and pushed it open carefully, but there was no one in the room.
He went to the kitchen again, and he could still smell the smell of roasted sweet potatoes, but there was no one either.
He turned again.
I saw a decomposing corpse standing abruptly on the threshold, with tattered clothes, and some fatty proteins could be seen crawling around in the eyes and nasal cavities.
Taking advantage of Li Daoxuan's turn, the ghost pounced.
"Poofโ"
The pig-killing knife pierced the throat of the corpse, Li Daoxuan threw it to the side again, and the corpse hit the four-corner cabinet, and fell to the ground with a "bang", and there was no movement.
Another ghost slave.
Li Daoxuan came to the corpse...... This man is the idler in the town, shouldn't he live in the east end of the town?
Why did you suddenly come here quietly?
As a second-order pig slaughterer, Li Daoxuan was sure that if he really walked into the courtyard alone, he would definitely be able to detect it.
He came to the threshold where the corpse had first appeared.
"Huh?"
Li Daoxuan used a pig-killing knife to pick through the gap under the threshold, and once again picked out a small bag of white rice.
"Sure enough, it's this thing again."
Li Daoxuan was already sure in his heart that these ghost slaves, or the reason why the ghosts could be haunted, relied on these polluted rice.
"Do you move by rice? Oh, then I'll put away the rice, and if you want to come, just come to me! โ
"If you don't dare to come...... These contaminated rice should also be regarded as filth, and they can be sold for a few incense ash dollars. โ
Just do it, Li Daoxuan didn't have so many scruples, found a cloth bag in the tailor's house, and swept the white rice scattered on the ground at the door and packed it.
Then he went out, knocking on the door one by one to ask if there was any, and he put away some of them, and let them hide if they didn't.
But the more he walked, the more frightened he became, knocking on an average of ten households, and four died.
Yesterday there were only a dozen people dead, but now ...... This ghost is avoiding his three grain eaters, and then killing people like crazy somewhere else.
It was already afternoon when the three of them started, and after such a delay, the sky became even darker.
Li Daoxuan stood at the entrance of the alley, there were no insects around, no dogs barking, no sound, only the scream when the wind blew through the laneway, and the lanterns on the opposite side were lit and still swaying in the night wind.
The world is like a ghost.
He weighed the cloth bag he was carrying, and probably collected almost two catties of polluted rice, but the ghost still didn't move at all.
Li Daoxuan suddenly turned his head to look, and the alley behind him was empty.
He walked quickly to the door of the house he had just been to and slammed the door hard, "Aunt Wang, Aunt Wang, are you okay?" โ
The huge sound of knocking on the door collided back and forth between the lanes, and Li Daoxuan didn't wait any longer, and directly kicked open the courtyard door.
I saw that Aunt Wang, who had just spoken to him, was lying in the courtyard at this moment, her pale face already had dead spots, her eyes were bulging and widening, and she was looking at the night sky vigorously.
And next to her, there was a bowl of rice placed in a dignified manner, as if mocking.
The green tendons on Li Daoxuan's forehead jumped, he looked at Aunt Wang's corpse, and then looked at the bowl of polluted rice......
Well?
Li Daoxuan's brows furrowed, and then he immediately stretched out.
He seemed to know what to do with the ghost who asked him.
He came to Aunt Wang's side, poured the bowl of rice into the bag again, took one last look at the corpse, and turned away.
In the turbid and turbulent times, they are all mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, let alone saving others.
He walked briskly on the way to Zhou's mansion, and there was silence along the way, and words appeared abruptly on the panel.
[Although the whereabouts of the ghost are strange, no matter what the ghost is, it has its own rules of action, as long as you find the rules, it is not difficult to find out it. ใ
[The brainless pig killer finally knows how to find out and ask the rice ghost, but despair always appears when hope comes, I wish you ...... Good luck, you have +2 survival points (green). ใ
According to the prompts on the panel, the method I just thought of was indeed able to catch the ghost of asking rice.
But what does it mean that despair always appears when hope comes?
Could it be that with the strength of me and Zhou Xu, we can't deal with this ghost who asks rice?
Although Li Daoxuan had doubts in his heart, there was no other way, otherwise when this ghost finished killing the people in the town, he would come to kill himself sooner or later.
Unless it's really the same as Huang Shiyuan, run!
In the main hall of Zhou's mansion, Zhou Su was sitting at the door with a chair, and inside the room were her trembling parents and several siblings.
Seeing Li Daoxuan carrying a cloth bag, she immediately stood up.
Her siblings, who were already nervous, screamed in fright when they saw her reaction.
"Why are you here? Did you kill the ghost who asked the rice? โ
Zhou Su hurriedly asked.
"No, I haven't been able to bump into it."
Li Daoxuan shook his head, and in Zhou Xu's slightly disappointed eyes, he said again: "But I have a way to find it." โ
"What's the solution?"
Zhou Xu, who was originally a little disappointed, had hope in his eyes again.
Li Daoxuan carried a cloth bag full of polluted rice, just stood in the courtyard and looked at her, and said word by word:
"Ask Mi."
Zhou Xu was surprised for a second, and then immediately understood the meaning of Li Daoxuan's words.
The Asking Rice Ghost was attracted by the king's goddess asking rice, and can appear in various parts of the town by polluting rice.
So as long as you use its polluted rice and ask the rice again, it will naturally be pulled by the law.
And this is the law of the appearance of the ghost that Li Daoxuan thought of.
You don't need to find it yourself, as long as you use the rules, the ghost will naturally send it to the door, and what you have to do is ...... A knife!
"I'm coming!"
Zhou Su is also a ruthless person, without the slightest hesitation, he took the matter in one bite, "What you are carrying in your hand should be polluted rice, right?" โ
"Hmm."
Li Daoxuan was about to unravel it, but he suddenly raised his head, and it was Zhou Xu who was also puzzled.
For they both heard the sound of horses' hooves trampling on the bluestone slabs.
Who has horses in town?
There is only one, the mayor Huang Shiyuan.
"Isn't he going to run away? How did you get back? โ
Zhou Su also came down from the steps and came to Li Daoxuan's side, and the sound of horses' hooves really stopped at the gate of Zhou's mansion.
Immediately afterwards, I saw Huang Shiyuan stumbling in.
His face was terrified, his appearance was frightened, and he even seemed to cry, "I can't run away, I can't run away, the ghost hits the wall, this is turbidity, turbidity." โ
As he spoke, he fell to his knees and wailed.
As soon as Li Daoxuan and Zhou Xu heard the word "turbidity", they immediately thought of the description of turbidity.
"Seeing it out of sight, being confused and upside down, is to see turbidity."
If you really see turbidity, let alone these ninth-rate grain eaters, even if the eighth-rate grain eaters come, they will only have to protect themselves.
Only a seventh-rate grain eater can deal with it.
Zhou Su showed a desperate look in her eyes, but suddenly, she thought of something, and immediately said:
"Li Daoxuan saw the body of the ghost who asked the rice, it is definitely not turbid!"